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 I like coffee.  Twin Town High Yearbook Volume 6 (2004) Full Tracklist on Discogs Highlights are a lot of folks I've already posted because I like them Hang Ups (version 2), Superhopper, Midnight Evils blow out the jams, and if you need some rarities there's Low doing the Beach Boys "Surfer Girl" Dig it.

 The subtitle of this one is "Most Likely to Rock!" Twin Town High Volume 5 (2003) Full track list on Discogs Another one with some winners. Faux Jean, the Exercise track that made me hunt down their other stuff, local stalwarts Rank Strangers, more Kruddler, a tender and sexy song by Tulip Sweet plus plenty of bands that I may get to someday or never released anything else. A nice smattering of hip hop, rock and other stuff. It was a heady time to be young. Yeah.

 Well, it's later the same night and I finally killed that jug of local gin I'd bought this summer. Twin Town Music Yearbook Volume Four (2001) Tracklist at Discogs Another one where I don't know where to start. So I won't. Just listen already. Suffice it to say that this one has a number of things that have caused me to flip through many a local bin searching for long forgotten goodness and bunch of adds to the old wantlist.

 I need a drink. I'll be right back.... ... .... ... ... .. ... Ok, where were we. Twin Town Music Yearbook Vol. 3 (2000) Tracklist at Discogs This one is an embarrassment of riches. The Twin Cities scene was on fire around this time but all self contained and nobody outside of the area paid it any attention. Where to start on this one... You got a 12 Rods track. One by All the Pretty Horses. The Grotto song that got me to track down their disc. Other various bands that I've posted or will But for me the absolute highlight of this disc and perhaps the whole fucking series is Kruddler doing a version of Ricky Martin's "Living La Vida Loca" and just burning the whole thing to the ground. If you check nothing else out, this is the one thing. Great version. Great band. Good people. With a special mention for the Mammy Nuns because Rob Rule is an awesome human who ran the board at the Turf and playing a Tuesday night there with him and the Mammy Nuns was always a good ...

 Here we go again. I really need to reconfigure this room a bit. For whatever reason ever since we moved, I've developed a huge never ending knot is my left shoulder. I thought it was the new chair, but it's still here after switching back to the old chair. I just may be getting too old to sit for hours on end in front of a computer and type anymore.... Twin Town High Music Yearbook Volume Two (1999) Volume Two tracklist at Discogs Highlights: Lifter Puller with an obscure track of theirs a version of which appeared on "Soft Rock" Katastrophy Wife is a post-Babes in Toyland band with Kat Bjelland Love-Cars do " Even The Animals Have Realized That We Are Not Alone In This World" which is a personal favorite of theirs And another Lily Liver song is always welcome. A shout out also for the sole issued song by Roast Beast. That's one I forget about.

  Well kids, Here we are at the century mark for posts on this highly specialized, but nonetheless supremely interesting and beloved by a handful of anonymous internet users who'll download anything so long as it's not Total Fucking Blood. (which is generally a terrible shame because their music goes "Hurrdurrroarhurr" and everybody needs some of that now and again) But 100 posts. That's some crazy bullshit right there. I was already planning on setting this up this week before I noticed the number, but let's just pretend it's actually some kind of month+ celebratory thing anyway. (On a side note I will also pass on that after a year I've maxed out the free storage on this Mediafire account. I started another, but I suppose it means that this stuff won't last forever in the aether before I start deleting things to make space for other things. You have been warned.) Twin Town High Music Yearbook Volume One (1998) Here we are. Between 1998 & 2008...

  Between both blogs I've set ten posts into the queue with it set to go out over the next couple of weeks until I'm off again and look to see if anybody's paying attention. But I'm really kind of done with doing this after several hours. I want to do other stuff for a while. But I did want to throw one more into the pot just because. It just took an extra minute to find the right one off release so I wouldn't feel like I had to keep going to queue up an entire discography. I'm committed but essentially kind of lazy at the same time.   Halfway Around the World (2000) I guess, I didn't scan this one myself. No matter. This is another sort of mystery band. They existed in an alternate musical world than the one I was in at the time this came out. I'm not sure I'd have liked it then. I'm not sure if I like it now. It's some soulful pop rock that runs a weird gauntlet between the kind of indiepop that I really do like an the sort of MOR/Cities 97...

  I got slightly ahead of myself in a rush to keep consecutive posts related. But then again, it's all still consecutive and related. Just out of order. Whatever. Big Hits of Mid-America: the Soma Records Story 1963-67 (1998) So the original albums entitled "Big Hits of Mid-America" were put out by the Twin  Cities based Soma label in 1964 & 1965. The punk rock Volume Three took it from there on Twin Tone. This compilation came out in 1998 and throws together most of both of those original records and a whole lot more into one tremendous package of 60s surf/garage fun Twin Cities style. Come for "Surfin' Bird" but stay for the Gestures and add the Embermen's "Fat Girl" to all your party playlists. You can thank me later